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- The US House advances the Ratepayer Protection Act, aimed at preventing data center-related utility costs from being passed on to consumers, by a vote of 417-3 (Justin Papp/CNBC) [47d]
- OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a new framework for reporting model misalignment (Axios) [47d]
- Sources: a group of 10 banks is providing a $22B loan to Blackstone and Alphabet's venture Crux AI, which provides compute for AI labs, to fund TPU purchases (Bloomberg) [47d]
- Sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is in talks to raise around $1B at a roughly $20B valuation, up from a $7.6B valuation in January (Bloomberg) [47d]
- Review of Meta's Muse: a pretty killer AI assistant and usage rates on the free plan seem generous, but trusting Meta with personal data will take some time (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass) [47d]
- X adds a "Trade" option to its Cashtag feature, letting US users complete trades at brokerages including Interactive Brokers, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [47d]
- Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterprises build software, raised an additional $53M seed led by Xora, five weeks after its initial $32M seed (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) [47d]
- Self-driving tech company May Mobility plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $1.4B pro forma enterprise value and raise up to $337M in gross proceeds (Joann Muller/Axios) [48d]
- Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge) [48d]
- Delos Data, which develops network chips and software to connect AI chips in a data center, raised $100M from Matrix, Playground, Socratic Partners, and others (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) [48d]
- Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [48d]
- DOD CTO Emil Michael says the Trump administration shouldn't take stakes in AI companies and signals opposition to regulatory oversight of AI companies (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC) [48d]
- A US judge orders X and SpaceXAI to explain why they dropped antitrust claims against Apple, after OpenAI's request for information on the purported agreement (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico) [48d]
- Arcee AI, which develops open-weight models in the US, raised a Series B at a $1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least $150M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) [48d]
- Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive merger agreement; the combined company will operate as Cohere, with Aleph Alpha co-CEO Ilhan Scheer becoming Cohere COO (Leo Marchandon/Reuters) [48d]
- Noetive, which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries, emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal) [48d]
- In an essay, Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic's training of Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control (Ina Fried/Axios) [48d]
- LawZero, a non-profit founded by Yoshua Bengio to develop safe AI systems, says Canada and Germany are providing up to $300M in grant funding (Globe and Mail) [48d]
- Google DeepMind cofounder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and launches the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI (Financial Times) [48d]
- OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents, which let users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads, with some US advertisers (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters) [48d]
- Amazon says it is raising its minimum hourly pay for eligible full-time US operations workers by $1, taking it to $20 per hour, and gives them new banking tools (Reuters) [48d]
- The iPhone Duo's squat, tablet-like outer display is a compromise, and a book-shaped foldable may lack wide appeal; its right-side UI bias is akin to a book (John Gruber/Daring Fireball) [48d]
- Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic staff felt blindsided by Dario Amodei's and Sam Altman's calls to slow the frontier; some fear evaluators may compromise security (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times) [48d]
- Sources: Apple is developing enterprise AI servers powered by two or four M8 Ultra chips, set for 2029, and is considering integrating Nvidia's NVLink Fusion (The Information) [48d]
- Modular data center startup Rune raised a $40M Series A led by Spark Capital to deploy off-grid compute capacity directly at solar and renewable energy sites (Adele Peters/Fast Company) [48d]
- A profile of Meta Compute co-lead Dina Powell McCormick, who is using her network to help structure major AI financing, as Mark Zuckerberg focuses on product (Bloomberg) [48d]
- Billionaire-backed AI safety activists have significantly expanded their Capitol Hill lobbying, with groups like ControlAI conducting hundreds of meetings (Washington Post) [48d]
- Hacker collective stegan0gram dismantles a Flock camera, recovering an encryption key and showing it runs ~20 apps on a midrange smartphone-grade processor (404 Media) [48d]
- iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max review: manual camera exposure controls and image quality improvements, but $100 more than the 17 Pro and expensive storage tiers (Allison Johnson/The Verge) [48d]
- Scientists test underwater solar panels that work 10 meters beneath the waves —breakthrough perovskite tech could support self-powered marine drones [47d]
- How the mighty have fallen — the notorious Stuxnet malware source code has been replicated and posted on GitHub for all to see [47d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, September 17 (game #1697) [47d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, September 17 (game #928) [47d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, September 17 (game #1194) [47d]
- Not sold the iPhone 18 Pro? There’s still time to grab the iPhone 17 Pro at a discount [47d]
- Panasonic is launching a new 4K Blu-ray player! Okay, it's very niche and is coming to Japan only so far — but it's the second new player this year, and I'm just happy we're getting new hardware [47d]
- Chinese scientists achieve 10 billion writing cycles in major future memory endurance breakthrough that improves endurance by 100x [47d]
- Quote of the day by pioneer Douglas Engelbart: 'The digital revolution is even more significant than the invention of writing or printing' — an audacious claim about interactive computing [47d]
- Forget AI ending humanity; what people are really worried about is AI taking their jobs — even if that's not exactly what's happening [47d]
- Playground Games says Fable will have a 60fps performance mode on Xbox Series X, but won't confirm PS5 or PC settings yet — 'We want the game to look great wherever you're playing it' [47d]
- Diablo 5 senior game director says the game will tell 'three stories,' including the past, the present desolation of Diablo's takeover, and the future 'terror forming' of the Sanctuary [47d]
- 'There's one never-ending challenge working for IKEA: cable management' — how Xbox collaborated with the Swedish designers to help solve the biggest problems for gamers while also making beautiful furniture [47d]
- First-ever battle between two autonomous naval drones 'won' by Ukraine — thanks to a salvo from a remote weapon turret [47d]
- Hackers found Flock cameras can track more than just cars — and Boston officials found camera data was shared despite being told it wouldn’t be [47d]
- Senator Bernie Sanders and Trump ally Steve Bannon unite in calls for more AI oversight [47d]
- Prime Day TV deals are already live —here are 9 top-rated models our experts recommend from $179.99 [48d]
- AMD could be working on an Nvidia DLSS 5 rival, but it'll be for next-gen RDNA 5 GPUs — and I've a feeling that may be too late [48d]
- Iran snoops on enemies of the state with Chosen Brick malware controlled using messaging apps [48d]
- 'A stylish machine that will suit any design studio or office': Geekom's A8 Max gets a $150 price drop at Amazon [48d]
- The Huawei Watch Fit 5 Pro is made from titanium, looks like an Apple Watch, performs really well against a top-tier Garmin watch — and is currently under £200 [48d]
- Salesforce is expanding its Missionforce defense AI agent platform with new Nvidia and OpenAI capabilities to tackle the US government's 'toughest challenges' [48d]
- Obsbot's Tiny 2 Lite 4K AI-tracking webcam solves the static camera problem — and it just got discounted in Amazon's Early Prime Day deal [48d]
- Blackwood is almost the John Wick-inspired third-person shooter I've been waiting for, and after 2 hours of playtime, I'm really excited for all of it — but it's rough around the edges right now [48d]
- Businesses are dropping Microsoft 365 in favor of Google, but if the ROI is no different, why are people switching? [48d]
- Hoto's $30 electric screwdriver belongs in your tech toolkit — this cordless 25-piece kit is the tool we use for PC builds and desk setups [48d]
- PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct is back later this month — here's how to watch it [48d]
- You can now let AI handle the setup of your Meta WhatsApp Business chats [48d]
- Yamaha's new cheap Dolby Atmos soundbar could be the compact TV sound upgrade you're looking for [48d]
- How to watch Man Utd vs Brighton: Free Streams, TV Channels for Carabao Cup 2026/27 3rd Round [48d]
- CenterPoint Energy confirms hackers compromised networks and stole data, and the hackers claim theft of 7.5 million files [48d]
- 'Insight, taste, and distribution': How to turn vibe-coded apps into cash [48d]
- The Volkswagen ID.3 GTI could struggle to win over the hot-hatch faithful — despite being the most powerful GTI it’s ever made [48d]
- A street photographer took Dyson's $500 camera toothbrush on a photo walk — and the lo-fi images are otherworldly [48d]
- I'm refreshing my home for fall at Amazon — Halloween decor, cozy blankets, kitchen appliances, fire pits, and more on sale [48d]
- 'I don't think we ever lost innovation': New Apple CEO John Ternus defends Apple's track record as his first September launch comes to a close [48d]
- America is building data centers but the grid to power them can't keep up — and it could cause significant energy constraints [48d]
- Vote now in the TechRadar Readers' Choice Awards 2026 — Fitness & Home Tech categories! [48d]
- Vote now in the TechRadar Readers' Choice Awards 2026 — TV, Streaming & Audio categories! [48d]
- Vote now in the TechRadar Readers' Choice Awards 2026 — Computing & Gaming categories! [48d]
- Vote now in the TechRadar Readers' Choice Awards 2026 — Phones & Cameras categories! [48d]
- TechRadar Readers' Choice Awards 2026 voting is open now — help choose the best tech of the last 12 months! [48d]
- Waiting on your unlocked iPhone 18 Pro? Mint Mobile has an unlimited plan for just $15/mo right now — the perfect pairing [48d]
- AI companies are 'begging the government to regulate them' says JD Vance, but nobody seems willing to actually slow the AI race [48d]
- Stop worrying about an AI apocalypse: Surfshark's engineer says extinction fears are just a 'marketing move' [48d]
- ‘I’ve just done about 2 weeks' work in an hour. Do I tell my boss or keep it secret?’ — Nearly a third of AI users are hiding it from their employers [48d]
- Watch out — TP-Link Tapo Camera vulnerabilities could let hackers spy inside homes, so patch now [48d]
- Neagley creator confirms 'no current plans' for a Reacher-Neagley romance despite Alan Ritchson cameo in new Prime Video spinoff — but he also hasn't ruled it out for the future [48d]
- Ring is bringing its Neighbours community feature to the UK next month—here’s how it works, how it's different from Facebook, and how it uses video doorbells to find lost dogs [48d]
- How to watch Max vs 100 for FREE: Live streams, TV channels, start time and drivers for four-time F1 champion's go-kart challenge [48d]
- Does the iPhone 18 Pro Max really have 'the largest increase in battery life ever'? Our lab tests results are in —here's how it compares [48d]
- Canon cameras just got a free update that unleashes immersive 3D photo capabilities — here's how [48d]
- DDR5 RAM pricing appears to be spiralling out of control even more — it's 5.5x pricier than before the memory crisis, and 2027 could get worse [48d]
- 'What you have there is essentially a $70,000 piece of lab equipment in a handheld consumer product': Jake Dyson shares the design secrets of the brand's new mouthwash-squirting toothbrush — and the company explains why some early models had problems [48d]
- Meta leak suggests camera-free smart glasses are on the way — as thousands download the 'Zuckoff' anti-smart glasses app [48d]
- Two new PlayStation Pulse headsets are coming with tons of new features, 'studio-inspired' planar magnetic drivers, and native PS Portal compatibility [48d]
- Outlander: Blood of my Blood season 2 has 'great Easter eggs' for fans four months after Outlander season 8 finished for good [48d]
- 200 hours in, Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave is my favorite Nintendo Switch 2 game ever — here’s why [48d]
- I spent a week with the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max — and they’re better in all the right places [48d]
- Out with Aircove, in with Fortify: everything to know about ExpressVPN's new router [48d]
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- Tyrannosaurus Rex Was Warm-Blooded and Able to Live in the Arctic, Study Finds [47d]
- I Tried Snap Specs: Really Big, but Also Like Nothing Else Out There [47d]
- Cricket Wireless Adds 5G Home Internet Service [47d]
- Interest Rates Just Went Up. Here’s Why Consumer Tech Might Cost Even More [47d]
- GM’s New Software Plays Nice With Apple CarPlay, Android Auto [47d]
- iOS 27.2’s First Developer Beta Brings These Features to Some iPhones [47d]
- What iOS 27.2 Could Bring to Your iPhone Later This Month [47d]
- Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 17, #724 [47d]
- Apple Says iPhone Duo Will Run iOS 27.1 at Launch in October [47d]
- The iPhone Duo Will Run iOS 27.1 at Launch on Friday [47d]
- Save $405 Today Only on Eufy’s New Triple-Lens Solar Security Camera Bundle [47d]
- AI’s Rising Costs Cast Doubts on Cloud Gaming’s Future [47d]
- Meta Reportedly Creating Glasses Without Cameras After ‘Pervert’ Uproar [47d]
- Gears of War: E-Day and Minecraft Dungeons 2 Headline Xbox Game Pass September 2026 Additions [48d]
- Walmart Deals of the Day: Upgrade to This Roomba Robot Vac While It’s Over $100 Off [48d]
- This Pixel Watch 5 Deal Can Put Google’s Latest Wearable on Your Wrist for $100 Less [48d]
- The Pixel Watch 5 Just Dropped to the Lowest Price We’ve Ever Seen for Prime Day [48d]
- Google’s Pixel Watch 5 Just Dropped to Its Lowest-Ever Price of Just $300 With This Early Black Friday Deal [48d]
- Is Facebook Down? Users Report Login Troubles [48d]
- I Got the Inside Scoop on Apple’s New Health App, Now in Developer Beta [48d]
- Apple’s Health App Hits Developer Beta. I Got the Inside Scoop From Apple’s VP of Health and Fitness [48d]
- AWOL Vision Aetherion Pro UST Projector Review: Sci-Fi Looks, Earthbound Performance [48d]
- Save 25% Off a 12-Pack of ZOA Zero Sugar Energy Drinks [48d]
- Anthropic Simplifies Claude’s Cowork and Design Tools [48d]
- Skip the iPhone Duo: Google’s Pixel 11 Pro Fold Just Hit Its Lowest Price Yet [48d]
- Amazon Deals of the Day: Smarten Up Your Home With 25% Off Kasa Smart Bulbs [48d]
- Final Prime Day TV Deals Are Here, With Big Savings on LG, Sony, Samsung and More [48d]
- Prime Day TV Deals Are Already Here and We’re Expecting Plenty More [48d]
- Don’t Miss These 25+ October Prime Day TV Deals Chosen by Our Pixel-Peeping Experts [48d]
- Prime Day Just Put These LG, Sony and More TVs on Sale for Less [48d]
- Looking for a New TV? Final Prime Day Deals Bring Huge Savings on LG, Sony Samsung and More [48d]
- Rock Out to 4 Months of Amazon Music Unlimited for Free With This Early Prime Day Deal [48d]
- A Drone Delivered Iced Matcha to Me on a Hot Day in a Park [48d]
- Update Your Wishlist With These Early October Prime Day Steals Under $50 [48d]
- Treat Yourself to One of These 25+ Amazon Prime Day Deals Under $50 [48d]
- Our Experts Have Already Found 25+ Early October Prime Day Deals You Can Score for $50 or Less [48d]
- EVs Are the Future, No Matter How Far America Falls Behind [48d]
- Apple Reference Images Explained: The iPhone 18 Pro’s Hardware Solution to AI Slop [48d]
- iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max Review: Apple’s Best Camera Isn’t for Everyone [48d]
- iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max Review: Apple’s Best Camera Isn’t for Everyone [48d]
- iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max Review: Apple’s Best Camera Isn’t for Everyone [48d]
- Nintendo’s Newest Fire Emblem Is a Sprawling Book of Stories [48d]
- The iPhone 18 Pro Max Has Taken Some of My Favorite Images Ever by an iPhone [48d]
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